Projektnummer

0061784

Zusammenfassung

Fundamental hallmarks of living systems are their distinctnon-equilibrium state and their ability to self-assemble frommolecular building blocks, to respond to external stimuli, and to growand replicate as compartmentalized units. Maintaining andorchestrating these features despite being subject to considerablenon-equilibrium thermodynamic fluctuations requires living entities tobe governed by a dynamic and robust self-organization program(sometimes paraphrased as "homeostasis"). Bacteria, for example,respond to extracellular sugar sources with an impressive accuracydespite strong noise in all...